Assume To undertake; engage; promise. 1 Ld. Raym. 122; 4 Coke, 92. To take upon one’s self. Springer v. De wolf, 194 111. 218, 62 N. E. 542, 56 L. R. A. 465, 88 Am. St. Rep. 155t Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)